His belief that the Land Registry will be completed by the end of the year was expressed by the Deputy Minister of Digital Governance, Konstantinos Kyranakis, participating in the panel on digitization at the GreenDeal 2024 conference.

“When we took over, land registration nationwide was at 39%, today we are at 52% and by January we will have reached 75%. We are digitizing an archive of approximately 700 million pages. We believe that this digitization will be completed by the end of 2025,” said Konstantinos Kyranakis.

The deputy minister referred to the significant delays observed in some shops in the transfers, typically mentioning that last year in September the entire body made approximately 16,000 decisions. These performances have improved after the introduction of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system for the legal control of contracts – the first similar system implemented in the Greek public sector, he said. He added that in the one month of the system’s operation, the issuance of decisions has accelerated significantly, as 40,000 decisions are now issued monthly.

As K. Kyranakis pointed out in collaboration with the Technical Chamber of Greece the project of the new digital platform is being implemented and at the beginning of 2025 the new register of approved engineers will be presented, which will now autonomously issue decisions on spatial changes. “We will move away from the dominance of legal information about the property, to the objective information which is the spatial and technical information that fits and is applied on a map” noted K. Kyranakis explaining that a certified engineer will have the ability, where there is consent, to correct cadastral errors almost automatically and where there is no consent to consider and issue a decision in the first instance.

“The trust that the Greek society will have in the engineer will depend very much on the implementation of this new possibility” emphasized K. Kyranakis. “We hope the world of TEE will support this initiative” he added.

Regarding the requests for an extension of the Land Registry, K. Kyranakis rejected them stating that as a country “we were used to the solutions of extension, but this is not a solution and we must show that we can move faster and with confidence” . In this direction, he called on the large companies to find partners in small and medium-sized companies of the Greek market for the execution of the projects “so that there is a diffusion of European resources throughout the market” and that the projects are implemented more immediately.

Also, regarding the delays, he admitted that an objective reason for the delays is the fact that the process from the start of the tender to the undertaking of the project by the contractor is extremely time-consuming, and especially in IT projects “it is a disaster” because the needs especially in this the sector changes within short periods of time. “Projects must be made public more quickly,” he stressed.

Finally, K. Kyranakis analyzed the possibilities provided by self-financed public units, which charge a specific fee for the services they provide and can provide “the flexibility and speed that the country needs”.